Re: LittleJohn Systems Site Hacked

[scott@alfter.DIESPAMMERSDIE.us (Scott Alfter)]

In article <fe6e05da-cf23-4e80-a9a9-ab040217fa60@w5g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,
Warren Ernst  <wernst@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Apr 20, 9:04 pm, sc...@alfter.DIESPAMMERSDIE.us (Scott Alfter)
>wrote:
>> In article <MOWdnZihDsqe3JfVnZ2dnUVZ_h-vn...@comcast.com>,
>> Michael J. Mahon <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
>> >A friend of mine used to keep a small website up on a Linux machine
>> >in his network's "DMZ".
>>
>> >He had a chron script that ran every night to copy the website backup
>> >to the website files, just to cope with this problem.  He said that
>> >he was logging dozens of probes per day.
>>
>> I suppose that'd work, but the better approach would be to keep your
>> system updated.  I have a script that runs weekly to check my installed
>> apps against what Gentoo says has vulnerabilities; if any are found, it
>> fires off some email to me listing what needs to be upgraded.
>
>Of course, the *best* approach is to do both. That's what I do. ;-)

A cron job on my Mac mini keeps a local copy of my websites (and the
databases they use) updated nightly.  If something happens to a website, I
can send it back up in not much time.

(I should probably have it make some tarballs every once in a while, so I
don't just end up with a local copy of a defaced website if I don't catch it
in time.)

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